bigote

\bi.ɡɔt\

/\bi.ɡɔt\/ noun

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The verdict

“bigote” is uncommon French (frequency #92,478 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,478
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille qui affiche une religiosité affectée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bigote · bigote · French

bigote · rank #92,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,478
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bienfaisants

Nearest frequency peer: bienfaisants (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « bigote »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bigote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bigote
PropertyValue
Headwordbigote
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bi.ɡɔt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#92,478
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bigote » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bigotetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « bienfaisants » (#92,477), « biography » (#92,479), « bibliothéconomie » (#92,476). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bigote » est au #92,478. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bigote is uncommon French at frequency #92,478 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ɡɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme ou fille qui affiche une religiosité affectée.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for bigote in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bigote, spelled B-I-G-O-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme ou fille qui affiche une religiosité affectée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bigote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ne dirait-on pas que je ferai une vieille bigote. J'aime M. le curé, comme je vous aime, vous, faute de mieux ; je ne peux pourtant pas vous épouser.
  2. Je ne regardais plus en effet ces demoiselles comme les augustes prêtresses du Savoir mais comme d’assez dérisoires bigotes.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bigote"?
"bigote" is spelled B-I-G-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.ɡɔt\.
What does "bigote" mean?
As a noun, "bigote" means: Femme ou fille qui affiche une religiosité affectée.
How do you pronounce "bigote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bigote" is \bi.ɡɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bigote", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bisoux#92,480Bharat#92,475Bolbec#92,484bavant#92,463

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list